The RecorderDavid Lasocki et Robert Ehrlich2022

The story of a hugely popular instrument, detailing its rich and varied history from the Middle Ages to the present.
The recorder is perhaps best known for its educational role, But that is a relatively recent facet of the instrument's long history of professional and amateur music-making.
The Recorder traces the evolution of this remarkably versatile instrument. Emerging from a variety of flutes played by fourteenth-century soldiers, shepherds and watchmen, the recorder swiftly became an artistic instrument for courtly and city minstrels. Featured in music by the greatest Baroque composers, including Bach and Handel, it played a vital role in the Early Music revival of the twentieth century, and achieved international popularity (and notoriety) in mass education
All readers will be familiar with the recorder. As David Lasocki and Robert Ehrlich demonstrate, the instrument and its music have been present and significant in Western music history for many centuries.

Titre original : The Recorder (2022)